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I was feeling a little bizarre
The day that I buried my family car
In this scrapmetal wrecking yard

And I've said so many goodbyes
In the 25 years that I've been alive
and I dont know why
this one was so hard

And every time i go back to my apartment
all i want to do is get stoned
and im sick and tired of blacking out on my carpet
and waking up all on my own
so i brought you home

You started falling apart
6 months after you moved in
and i shouldve known from the start
that things would be different

It's not something that I can fix
If I could do anything you know I would
If this fucking vacation would come to an end
Maybe then you'd be normal again

last week when I went back to my apartment
you were looking so stoned
the day after christmas you were acting so different
just wanted to be on your own

so i brought you medicine
went to the vet and cashed all of my savings and loans
But it was too late
You were letting go

and nothing i say
will make it ok
you just sleep in the heat and repeat
you're wasting away
and nothing i do is gonna save you
im trying my best but you cant even look at me and talk to me
and tell me what's happening to you

yesterday i went back to my apartment
to see how you'd been holding up
you hadn't been eating i thought you were sleeping
but you're not waking up

and i want you to know
i would spend every bit of my pitiful saving and loans
just to see you again

but i know i wont

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getthoselyricsright On Oct 12, 2016

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My Life Is Over and I Couldn't Be Happier

I was feeling a little bizarre
The day that I buried my family car
In this scrapmetal wrecking yard

And I've said so many goodbyes
In the 25 years that I've been alive
and I dont know why
this one was so hard

And every time i go back to my apartment
all i want to do is get stoned
and im sick and tired of blacking out on my carpet
and waking up all on my own
so i brought you home

You started falling apart
6 months after you moved in
and i shouldve known from the start
that things would be different

It's not something that I can fix
If I could do anything you know I would
If this fucking vacation would come to an end
Maybe then you'd be normal again

last week when I went back to my apartment
you were looking so stoned
the day after christmas you were acting so different
just wanted to be on your own

so i brought you medicine
went to the vet and cashed all of my savings and loans
But it was too late 
You were letting go

yesterday i went back to my apartment
to see how you'd been holding up
you hadn't been eating i thought you were sleeping
but you're not waking up

and i want you to know
i would spend every bit of my pitiful saving and loans
just to see you again

but i know i wont

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by ahlmann

8y ago

BUT I KNOW I WON'T!

Frontman Stefan Babcock’s explains:

This song is about my baby chameleon. Her name is Norman. If you’re a fan of the first record, you might have seen the ‘Mabu’ video, where I drive my family car in a demolition derby. We rented a bunch of reptiles for the video, because, reptiles are cool as shit. We had a snake and some turtles and some goldfish, and we also got a baby chameleon. That day was really emotional for me. After the derby, we had a funeral for my mangled car (watch the video, you’ll understand). While I was saying goodbye, my heart was breaking, and I was holding this little chameleon. I looked down, and she was just staring up at me with these huge, adorable eyes, and I loved her right away. She was filling the car-sized hole in my heart. I named her Norman and took her home that night. Norman was the best. She hunted crickets and hung out in this cool terrarium me and my roommates built for her, and she was super friendly. But one day, she got really sick. I took her to a special reptile hospital, where they told me she had a tongue infection, and would need to have it amputated. The procedure was going to cost $1000 (pretty much every dollar in my bank account), but money didn’t matter. I loved Norman and she was my responsibility. After the surgery, Norman was different. Chameleons rely on their tongues to eat and drink and hunt. For weeks, my roommates and I tried to teach her to do those things without a tongue. She just couldn’t figure it out. She got frustrated. And at a certain point, she stopped trying. She wouldn’t eat. She slept all day. She slowly lost her will to live, and that was the end of it. I miss Norman a lot. I think about her every day. I really really liked her. I hope she liked me too.

http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/pups-track-by-track-guide-to-their-new-album-the-dream-is-over/863214

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BUT I KNOW I WON'T!

Frontman Stefan Babcock’s explains:

This song is about my baby chameleon. Her name is Norman. If you’re a fan of the first record, you might have seen the ‘Mabu’ video, where I drive my family car in a demolition derby. We rented a bunch of reptiles for the video, because, reptiles are cool as shit. We had a snake and some turtles and some goldfish, and we also got a baby chameleon.
That day was really emotional for me. After the derby, we had a funeral for my mangled car (watch the video, you’ll understand). While I was saying goodbye, my heart was breaking, and I was holding this little chameleon. I looked down, and she was just staring up at me with these huge, adorable eyes, and I loved her right away. She was filling the car-sized hole in my heart. I named her Norman and took her home that night.
Norman was the best. She hunted crickets and hung out in this cool terrarium me and my roommates built for her, and she was super friendly. But one day, she got really sick. I took her to a special reptile hospital, where they told me she had a tongue infection, and would need to have it amputated. The procedure was going to cost $1000 (pretty much every dollar in my bank account), but money didn’t matter. I loved Norman and she was my responsibility.
After the surgery, Norman was different. Chameleons rely on their tongues to eat and drink and hunt. For weeks, my roommates and I tried to teach her to do those things without a tongue. She just couldn’t figure it out. She got frustrated. And at a certain point, she stopped trying. She wouldn’t eat. She slept all day. She slowly lost her will to live, and that was the end of it.
I miss Norman a lot. I think about her every day. I really really liked her. I hope she liked me too.

http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/pups-track-by-track-guide-to-their-new-album-the-dream-is-over/863214

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by salamandoor 8y ago

@ahlmann This story is so bittersweet, man. Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea.

by sk8rgoosh 7y ago

@ahlmann this is a great story behind an epic tune! Pathetic Use of Potential ftw!

by br0d4uf111 6y ago

@ahlmann it's 3 am and I'm crying about a chameleon, fuck.

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